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This is done by conditioning. The estimator, t2 , was constructed in such a way as to be conditionally unbiased, whatever the result of the randomization. The value of blocking is that the variance of any estimator which has been constructed so as to be conditionally unbiased will be a minimum when the groups are balanced. 18) is also conditionally unbiased if the trial has been blocked by centre, the issue of conditioning may be avoided altogether. In fact this is frequently assumed but it is false.

This requires identification of the appropriate element of (XH X)À1 . The diagonal elements of this matrix are the multipliers for the variances of the estimated regression coefficients and the off-diagonal elements are the multipliers for the covariances. 8) above, that i À p $ tnÀkÀ1 ,  aii where tc is a random variable with Student's t distribution with c degrees of freedom. Thus, Student's t distribution can be used to make inferences about elements of . Remark Note that (i ) is the product of two factors.

The second is appropriate where we assume both treatment and centre are relevant. For the third we allow for interactions as well in that we do not assume that the treatment effect is the same in each centre. Depending on which of these three models is appropriate we correct the sum of squares within each cell prior to pooling using the appropriate predictor. The degrees of freedom to be used in the first case are 2n À 2, in the second are 2n À 3 and in the third are 2n À 4. 2 Three possible schemes for correcting sums of squares: (1) treatment effects only; (2) treatments and centres; (3) treatments, centres and interactions.